[Wolves] xrdp

[Dave Morley]

On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 12:38 +0100, Adam Sweet wrote:
> --- Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 2008/5/16 Andy Wootton
> > <andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk>:
> > > I noticed today that Ubuntu Hardy Heron has the
> > xrdp server available as a
> > > standard package, allowing any standard Windows XP
> > client to connect to GUI
> > > apps on a Linux server without any additional
> > software being installed on
> > > the client. This strikes me as an incredible
> > advantage for making useful
> > > Linux services available in an environment where
> > you don't have control of
> > > the desktop.
> > >
> > > Woo
> > >
> > 
> > I've not heard of the xrdp server before Woo.  Am I
> > correct in
> > assuming it allows a standard 'Network Drive'
> > (Microsoft terminology
> > for a network connection to a 'share' on a different
> > machine) to
> > either an 'app' or a 'share' onto a Linux PC running
> > the server?  So,
> > if I wanted I could set up a share from the XP
> > machine to my Linux
> > machine and run say GIMP from the Linux PC on the
> > Win PC?  Or does it
> > need a folder or something setting up?
> 
> You're a little bit to cock here. RDP is the protocol
> used by Windows machines for the built in Windows
> Remote Desktop in Windows NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003,
> Vista and Server 2008. There's no network file sharing
> involved.
> 
> What you would do (I assume, I've not used xrdp server
> on Linux but I have used Terminal Server client on
> Linux to access a Windows XP remote desktop session at
> work) is use it like VNC to get a remote desktop.
> Apparently, RDP 6.1 clients (XP SP3, Vista SP1 and
> Server 2008) with Server 2008 as the server can do
> individual applications over RDP, packaged as an .rdp
> file or as an msi installer. I guess there's nothing
> to stop you having this on a Windows network share.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Services
> 
> I think what you're talking about is either XDMCP
> which is a remote X login and I wasn't able to get
> working last time I tried:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xdmcp
> 
> Or you could do X forwarding over SSH, which is dead
> simple, but not very fast in my experience:
> 
> ssh -X -C username at xservermachine
> 
> -X means X forwarding, -C means use compression as
> it's pretty slow otherwise. Now login on the other
> machine and run an X application, it's window will
> display on your local machine. It's pretty slow
> though. Jittery on a lan and downright painful over a
> WAN in my experience. Your chosen remote machine has
> to have SSH server running with 'X11Forwarding yes'
> set up in the sshd config file. This doesn't support
> audio. You can also do this from Windows if you have
> Putty and Cygwin with X installed.
> 
> http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/Chapter3.html#using-x-forwarding
> 
> Other options include VNC and FreeNX which I believe
> don't encrypt your traffic (including your key
> strokes) but are fast over a WAN and can be redirected
> over SSH for security. Eg for VNC over SSH:
> 
> Start a VNC server on your remote machine, you might
> want to preconfigure it, see link below:
> 
> ssh -C -L 5901:localhost:5901 username at remotehost
> 
> then in a VNC viewer connect to localhost:5901
> 
> there are a few wrinkles to this though, a better set
> of instructions is at:
> 
> http://wiki.adamsweet.org/doku.php?id=vnc_over_ssh
> 
> I believe the commercial version of NX does encrypt
> your traffic.
> 
> To wrap up, a comparison of options:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_remote_desktop_software
> 
> Ad - worn out now :)
> 

In more Heron news if any of you have AD at work you could try taking in
your hardy laptop with LikewiseOpen installed and see if you can login
to the AD :)  Have a read up on it first though :)
-- 
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